ShareFile for Windows 8 – An Essential App for Your Microsoft Surface and Other Tablets and PCs

Users are excited about tablets and the market is growing rapidly. With Windows 8, Microsoft is providing a great tablet OS as well as their own hardware in the Microsoft Surface RT and Surface Pro. This article from CIO indicates that a Forrester survey showed that 32% of users want their next work tablet to run Windows.

Citrix is bringing easy file sharing to the latest version of Windows. If you are one of those users looking to get a tablet running Windows 8 or if you have a laptop/desktop running Windows 8, we now have multiple ways to leverage ShareFile on Windows 8 with the introduction of the new ShareFile app in the Windows Store. This app provides a full-screen experience on Windows 8 for accessing ShareFile and integrates directly with the new Windows 8 charm bar for OS-level integration with the Search, Share, and Settings charms. Of course, we included support for the great device security features like remote wipe and users can login with their AD credentials. The app also supports these great features:

Browse your account

Download and view documents

Request and send files via email

Transfer big files

Add users to folders on your ShareFile account

Offline access to view downloaded files

For Enterprise accounts, users will be able to access their data using their corporate credentials

IT administrators will be able to control and audit access

Check out a video of the app in action on YouTube. More details on all the features are available in our KB article. We think the interface turned out great, so try it out and let us know what you think on Twitter (@ShareFile) or in a comment below.

Peter Schulz

ShareFile Product Management

5 Comments

Christoph, If you are an administrator you can lock a device, but this is not exposed to the user. You have to go through Manage Users on the web user interface and then click Manage devices for this user.
Update: Sorry, I verified that Wipe is not currently supported. This will be in the next update.